* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:57:47PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: *snip* > | Automake, a Libtool or a user problem? Why is there no standard way to > | ask a libtoolize for its corresponding m4 files (at least, one would > | think, newer versions would improve this situation)? > > That is a good idea. What do you think the interface should be? Maybe: > > $ libtoolize --macro-files > /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/libtool.m4 > /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltdl.m4 > /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltoptions.m4 > /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltsugar.m4 > /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltversion.m4
As I was very unsure about what tools will ever need this -- maybe. I'm not sure if I want the switch --ltdl (and whatever other switches libtoolize will ever have that change the set of macro files) to affect the output (maybe --all-macro-files as well?). The other idea that springs to my mind is to have libtoolize --macro-srcdir give me the directory from which aclocal could pull those macro files. I'm not in a position to decide as I know far too little about the overall machinery involved. Regards, Ralf
